Tuesday, August 19, 2008

New Information OnDemand Solutions

In the last month, we’ve introduced new Information OnDemand solutions that extend the value of Information OnDemand to not only knowledge workers, but our partners and IT; these features are:
  • Address Cleansing Web Services. This allows our partners and customers to integrate address validation and cleansing capabilities directly within their business applications or solutions, respectively. In a previous release, we introduced a bulk address cleansing solution, focused on direct sales and marketing, for helping to manage and maintain large address lists. The web service builds on this, allowing address validation and cleansing to be performed in-place within reference applications, fostering a better, more fluid, end user experience.
  • Data Web Services Beta. Information OnDemand brings, amongst other things, structure, accessibility, and analysis to external information. Our customers have expressed the desire to extend analysis of the existing models. Data Web Services allow customers to do just this… Customers or partners are free to access the data sets behind models to perform their own analysis… and, if they wish, republish the resulting analysis. The only restriction is – this stems from our data provider partner agreements – that the data is consumed within any of Business Objects' BI tools.
  • Administration and Content management tools. We have had a great response to Information OnDemand from our partners. They see immense value in bringing together leading content, our BI tools, and their business process knowledge. What have been missing are automated tools to support our partners’ development and knowledge contributions. That has partially changed as of this release -- we now have the tools for partners to post and manage their offerings. We've not yet fully automated the entire design-create-test-deploy lifecycle, but are working on extending the capabilities here.
If you would like to see these solutions for yourself, feel free to visit us at information.ondemand.com.

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